“RealBadNow” Multimedia Event features MSUM’s Williams and Clancy

"RealBadNow" Multimedia Event features MSUM's Williams and Clancy

Thursday, Sept. 12 | 7:30 p.m. | Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage | Get free tickets

MSU Moorhead presents "RealBadNow," a groundbreaking multimedia music, film, and lighting event, Thursday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage. It features the combined talents of MSUM music faculty Dr. Kenyon Williams and film faculty Ryan Clancy, with lighting design by David Wilhelmi.

This unique multimedia concert, funded by a Lake Region Arts Council Grant, features flashing lights, multimedia projections, and adult language and themes that explore the fracturing of our modern American social fabric through the spread of conspiracy theories, pointless wars, addiction, and social upheaval. Adult themes and flashing lights will be a part of the performance.

Admission is free, but tickets are required at www.mnstate.edu/tickets.

This is the first collaboration between Williams and Clancy combining music and film.

Williams is the director of Percussion Studies at MSUM and is the principal percussionist for the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra. He directs the acclaimed "Fuego Tropical" World Percussion Ensemble and leads ensembles in Trinidadian steel pan, Javanese gamelan, African drumming, Afro-Cuban salsa, and Brazilian samba.

Clancy is a filmmaker, educator and programmer whose work has been shown at prestigious venues, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Bauhaus Museum-Dessau, Detroit Institute of Arts, Maysles Documentary Center, and others. His films have been featured in publications like Architecture Daily, Hyperallergic, and Screen Slate.